Why hasn't microsoft updated outlook to use latest html styles when rendering an email?

Question

Why can't we use the latest HTML and CSS to display our emails in Outlook? Why do we still have to include IMG attributes like height, width, align, hspace and vspace that were deprecated at 20 years ago. Why can we not use styles like margin, padding, display on certain elements?

I don't think Microsoft have changed their email rendering engine for over 10 years at least.

I love you Microsoft but come on this is ridiculous! Keep up with the times!

John
Website Platform Developer

Answer 1

Hi @John Mitchell ,

Welcome to our forum and posting here.

Currently, the Microsoft Q&A forum is mainly used to discuss problems encountered when using the Outlook client. Thank you for your sincere suggestion and I submitted your feedback on the dedicated portal via the link below: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/1dbe7ce0-460b-ee11-a81c-000d3a7a48db

Many features of our current products are designed and upgraded based on customers’ feedback. With requirements like this increase, the problem may well be released in the future.

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